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any one ever haerd of sea ticks i decided to go huntin today got my lil bag walk the hills dedcided hey there is a shit load of trees over there shade yay i might have a chance well i dont find none i get home get on the pc and start feelin somethin is crawlin on me i get to lookin and its sea ticks if you dont know wat they are they are lil ticks bout the size of a pen head them bastards dont come off for nothin any one know a remedy

I have heard of Deer ticks and dog ticks, but never sea ticks. Deer ticks on the ones that carry lyme disease. You don't want that. If one borroughs into your skin you can light a match, blow it out, and while it's still hot touch it to the ticks body. The heat will usually make them back out. Don't grab the body with tweezers. You can rip the body of the head and the head can stay lodged in your skin.

Put Vaseline over them it'll make them back out ive heard, never heard of those kind of ticks though. Deer ticks are small and black i think but dont quote me on that, i never get deer ticks i always get the larger brownish red ones i hate ticks man and since i have long hair its hard for me to find them. I get my wife to check my head after i hunt in the woods, like sum kinda monkey

Quote:rick0909 said:Yeah the Vaseline method also works. As does cooking oil, baby oil, or even motor oil. I think it makes it so they can't breathe.

Those methods actually are not recommended by doctors. If you irritate the tick (ie: suffocating it), it tends to regurgitate it's stomach contents back into it's host. It also just so happens that the diseases that ticks carry live in their stomach. Bad idea.

The recommended method of removing ticks is to use some fine-tipped tweezers to grab the tick by the head and just pull it out slowly. Make sure you grab it by the head though, that's important.

Edit: just finished reading the entire thing.. weiliiii: most of the ticks people get in the woods are deer ticks. There are a lot of regional variations. The older they get the darker they get, so that's probably why they're black. Younger ones are a reddish color which fades to brown then dark brown with age. Also, have you noticed at lot more ticks this year in GA? I went to one of my regular hiking/hunting spots in May and hiked around for 3 hours... I came out with nine ticks! 3 were embedded. Most of them were young ticks that were about 2-4mm across. Hard as hell to find.

Oh, as far as the Lyme's disease goes, you can always tell if you've been bitten by a tick infected with Lymes if there is this bright red bullseye pattern radiating out from the bite wound. If you catch it in it's first stage you can treat it somewhat easily (with oral antibiotics).

I sat down on a hill and had the fuckers crawling all over me, it was sick.

I was going mad trying to brush them off, when I got home I found 2 in my leg and 1 right on my fucking nut sack, no shit!

I read online a good method which is to make a small loop out of cotton. Put that over the tick and tighten. Then gently tug until the tick releases. It takes a minute or so of tugging but they did all eventually release. Evil little bastards.